Open infrastructure from millennial point of view
As it’s been around for many years, we now know that open infrastructure is a combination of open-source products to build open cloud infrastructure with. This cloud infrastructure consists of many components. OpenStack, OpenShift, OKD, Kubernetes and Ceph are a few to mention and some of the IT people got to know it when it […]
We are Dutch! Great? But what does that mean for you?
As a person that wasn’t really Dutch but was born in The Netherlands, I have experienced the Dutch culture both from the inside and from the outside. This has allowed me to put things into perspective and analyse it. First of all, the culture of the Netherlands is very diverse, reflecting regional differences as well […]
Building an Open Infrastructure Unified Telecom Cloud; what it means for you.
Telecom companies face quite a few challenges these days especially regaining market share in relation from public cloud providers. They are adopting fast to become tech-centric and front running companies: think of the technical migration from 4G to 5G and moving cloud computing to their customer at the ‘edge’ of the telco networks. This […]
Cloud consolidation: ‘To consolidate, or not to consolidate? That is the question.’
About 10 years ago, when I visited information technology events, there always was some discussion about whether or not companies would be using cloud technologies in the near future. Some years later the discussion was not about whether enterprises would be using cloud technologies, but about whether they would be using private- or public cloud […]
6 Reasons why telecom providers migrate from proprietary to open solutions.
Building an open source telecommunications infrastructure is highly attractive to telecommunication enterprises. Both for operators in low ARPU markets where cost reduction is imperative, as for telco’s aiming to gain more control over their ability to innovate and differentiate. In the last couple of years we have seen a huge migration by telecommunications providers […]
Virtual Open Infrastructure Summit
Join us October 19-23, 2020 As you all know, OpenStack is one of the largest open source projects in the world. The community has over 100.000 active contributors from 180 countries. And although there are many ways to communicate with each other, under normal circumstances there is no better way than to meet face to […]
Software support versus infrastructure support
With all open infrastructure components; whether it’s Ceph, OKD, Cumulus, Kubernetes, or OpenStack, I often get questions about the difference between software support and infrastructure support. ‘In what way and at what level am I able to support my open source infrastructure?’ ‘Can I support my open source infrastructure with software support only, or do […]
Disruptive Hybrid Cloud Management and Cloud Migration
More than ever before, businesses are increasingly using cloud platforms to speed up innovation, reduce costs, enhance reliability, to avoid risking data loss and increase flexibility. Among the various types of cloud models you can choose, there’s one that ensures optimal cost-efficiency, performance, and flexibility: the hybrid cloud. It has fast become the de facto […]
Become a Ceph specialist with our course
A lot of organisations have adopted and embraced the opportunities of native cloud storage with Ceph. Either with or without OpenStack. One of the hallmarks of Ceph is that a well-trained Linux team (or a single engineer) can setup a Ceph cluster pretty easily. But as the success in the organization of this platform often […]
Cloud and OpenStack retrospective
Cloud and OpenStack? In a recent conversation, someone asked us why Fairbanks, choose to focus your attention to open infrastructure cloud solutions and OpenStack when you started? And why do we blog about so many aspects of open infrastructure clouds and what can be achieved with it? Since we are doing this since 2011 and […]
